not depend on AM_MAINTAINER_MODE [Re: does not rebuild Makefile.in]

[Ilya N. Golubev]

> This seems like an automake question, not a make question.

Confirming it to be so: (it is the bug described in)
<address@hidden> (posted) to <address@hidden> on Wed,
20 Aug 2008 22:43:38 +0400.  So moving the discussion from
<address@hidden> here.

> You must 'configure
> --enable-maintainer-mode' to

However, that bug does not need neither `AM_MAINTAINER_MODE' called in
`configure' sources nor `--enable-maintainer-mode' passed to
`configure'.  The broken command for `$(srcdir)/Makefile.in' target
does not depend on these, it is always generated the same.
`--disable-maintainer-mode' only makes prerequisite list for that
target to be empty.  When `AM_MAINTAINER_MODE' is not called, the
target is always present, and with full prerequisite list.  So, both
in this case and when `AM_MAINTAINER_MODE' is called and
`--enable-maintainer-mode', the bug will manifest the same way.

Anyway, many projects do not call `AM_MAINTAINER_MODE'.  (From free
ones can easily recall coreutils 6.12.)  If you (or anybody else) care
for detailed circumstances of me hitting that bug, neither did my
projects call `AM_MAINTAINER_MODE', both production ones and toy ones
(written solely to ease isolating the bug).